TPW - Suggestions

[Lynores]

Feel free to leave your two cents. I'll be checking this thread regularly.

[Arzeal]

Only small suggestion: Please change the Recruiting Mercs dialog, so we can know (In short) what will they be good at, what's their side arm, and abit meaning of their orgin.
May be possible, if u can talk w. them later and ask few thing about their cities, their beliefs at that time etc.
More educational and make background of TPW lively 

[Kiivit]

I actually have three suggestions

1) Can you make it so the enhanced scripts can be enabled/disabled?  I'm sure a lot of people love shield bash but it's driving me nuts... my hoplites keep knocking my officers unconscious lol.  Also, I'm a big fat cheater.  I rarely play Mount and Blade mods through from the start.  I like to ctrl-x my way to L40 and then partake in crazy awesome battles .  The death thing gets kind of annoying.  One of my companions has skill 9 in surgery but I still die ~1/3 of the time.  I like the idea a lot but is there a way to turn it up (for uber-realism) or down (for suckers like me?).  I think TLD has something like this.

2) I'm not a fan of the officer portion of the skill-tree.  Armies end up populated 1/3 by officers and mine has over 60 of them, lol.  Could they be replaced with something simple like Elite Hoplite and then officers have a totally separate growth tree?  Like from minor statesmen to full-fledged military officers?  Since they'd be rarer they'd have to have higher stats but I think it would be cool to train your officers from little guys .

3) In terms of expanded factions I would very much like to see alternate Greek factions.  I'm a fan of the Athenian, Spartan, and Boetian League setup that there is now, but would it be possible to create minor factions within the big ones?  They don't necessarily even need their own units since they would have been so heavily influenced by the hegemon within their particular alliance but it would be fun (I think) to be a part of a tiny, minor city-state subservient to a big one.  Even if the possibility of rebellion isn't added until a much later date.  I miss Pherae .

Awesome work, Lynores.  Best mod I've ever played for anything.

[WilliamBerne]

i'm trying to make some of your meshes a little simple(maybe also some lod meshes) but I can have barely tell the difference between the new and old ones.

guess which ones are simplified?


right ons.

small shield tirs: 416 -->284, lod 212
round shield tris: 750-->354, lod 202

Lynores, would you like to use them when I have those done?

[Gerin]

I think the assassins should be taken out of the game entirely.  I just died.   

Oh well, next time I'll CTRL-F4 them.

[vietanh797]

I think the assassins should be taken out of the game entirely.  I just died.   

Oh well, next time I'll CTRL-F4 them.

Oh Lynores you have first victim

I think that the Sparta officer don't really overpower other the medium hoplite
my officer die so much >"<
Thracian really make game harder because they come too near to use spear against them Dory so useless with them and most of my Hoplite go to meet their god Y____Y

[Merlkir]

I'd like to support WilliamBerne's suggestion. Make the textures smaller, kill polygons on all kinds of models as much as you can, make lods for all stuff. This kind of mod is imho best suited to be played with a big battlesize and while I get decent fps, almost all the time the game crashes with the vertex buffer error. And I do have a 512 MB Graphics card.

[Merlkir]

I'll be updating this post with the download links on Rapidshare (it's 5 parts. Unpack with WinRAR)

http://rapidshare.com/files/165293147/TPW_Demo.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/165293148/TPW_Demo.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/165310948/TPW_Demo.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/165327104/TPW_Demo.part4.rar


edit: ok, all 5 parts uploaded. It's not pasworded, just use WinRAR to unpack.

[WilliamBerne]

I have done
small shield 416 -->284, lod1 212, lod2 128, 1od3 41
round shield 750-->354, lod1 202, lod2 119, lod3 66
scythian quiver 508 -->320, lod1 241, lod2 116, lod3 49
kelermes axe, 500-->313, lod1 191, lod2 137
sword kopis, 516-->352, lod1 256

[EmjeR]

is it possible to make new animations? i saw the musketeers mod has.

if that's possible i suggest a back hand trust for the spears and also a underhand trust for sword(expect kopis).

also when in defence stance the hoplites must hold thier spears in backhand stance

i wanna do this but i first need to know how it works

[Merlkir]

A couple of mine:

- a sheathed xiphos should be placed higher than on the hip, more like under the arm
- on what reference is the scythian quiver based? doesn't look like any gorytos I've seen..
- why did you make the aspis with the handles moved to the left? if you put (imho, I haven't tried it) the forearm strap in the middle and the handle to the right rim, it would look much more natural and the hoplites could actually see over their shields when blocking.

And I'm probably not going to play any more :/ sorry, but I get a "unable to lock vertex buffer" all the time. Lowering texture quality ingame won't do it for me, the textures should be viewed in their glory, not blurred. And lowering the battlesize didn't help a whole lot either. I'll wait for a fix.

[Chechen!]

Dude!
Add bikes!

[Merlkir]

Dude!
Add bikes!

go away, retard!

[vietanh797]

Dude!
Add bikes!

go away, retard!

try lower video quality more, men
it work with me

p/s:do you want a small arena fight
I gone to season#2 about 2 months ago and stop playing that game from this time

[EmjeR]

I get that fuction too
but maybe u use the battle sizer?
shouldn't go higher then 100
also turn off some shadows! the needs the most graphics!